XF86Config changes back to original.

That Evo Guy thatevoguy at insightbb.com
Mon Apr 19 01:12:29 UTC 2004


Thank you everyone that helped me with this.  I did indeed have another
copy on my system.

Another problem solved by you Fedora gurus!  THANK YOU!

On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 20:21, Bill Schoolcraft wrote:
> There is a good chance that there is a file somewhere in your
> filesystem that is getting looked at first, I've experienced
> that before doing support while working at Linuxcare.
> 
> Do a search and see what you find.
> 
> 	find / -name "XF86Config*" -print
> 
> That should show you all the files and I'd guess you have one
> file that is somehow "ahead" (in the $PATH) and is getting hit
> first.
> 
> Just a guess here. :)
> 
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> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Am So, den 18.04.2004 schrieb ThatEvoGuy um 19:45:
> 
> > The problem that I'm having is, that when I reboot, the XF86Config file
> > is changed back to the way it was prior to making the updates, using the
> > "original" nVidia driver (nv instead of nvidia).
> > 
> > I have repeated this process a couple of times and now I'm getting
> > frustrated.  I have turned off kudzu thinking that was causing my
> > problems.  But it's STILL changing my config file back.
> > 
> > What in the world am I missing here?  Any help will be appreciated.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Wayne
> 
> Do you maybe have serveral /etc/X11/Xf86config files, with different
> suffixes? There is no script changing XFree86Config at boot time.
> 
> Alexander
> 





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